When the Chinese/Aribics see " 12 " do they instantly understand it's 12, or have they created another symbol for the number 12?
2006-07-11 05:11:12 · 6 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
In Arabic & Chinese languages the numbers are completely different from the one we know in English. For some 12 wouldnt make sense if they didn't knew english. Numbers are not a Universal Language anymore, it used to be long time back, but its English now. Although you can communicate with numbers if you didnt knew the language, but you wont get BEER with numbers. So English rules.
2006-07-11 05:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by A.j. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Numbers are the best bet of a universal lanuage. However, different cultures may use different number systems. Base 10 numbers are the norm but computers use binary. Older computer languages used oct and hex. So, although numbers might be a universal language there are different "dialects" of representing the numbers.
2006-07-11 12:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly...for example in English we use arabic numbers.
12: is twelve but in Chinese and Japanese it is written åäº.
Although today in China and Japan our arabic numerals are more common than their own kanji numbers.
Hope that helped :)
2006-07-12 07:51:36 · answer #3 · answered by silver00string 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know in Vietnamese "12" means 12... as in a dozen.
I suppose it's just like music.
2006-07-11 12:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by anne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd think that, and it seems to be so, but the Pirahã people of Brazil are an indigenous tribe that have no sense of numbers whatsoever. Researchers have tried to teach them, but they have no concept of numbers.
2006-07-11 12:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by Jesse O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea
2006-07-11 12:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by vkumar219 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋